In the mid-twentieth century, antibiotics and modern medicine seemed to be eliminating the threat of infectious diseases. But since the 1980s and the emergence of HIV/AIDS and the subsequent appearances of Ebola, Hanta Fever, West Nile Virus, Lime Disease, SARS, …
Echoes from Ground Zero
The past thirty years have witnessed a dramatic change in the way Western democracies deal with ethnic minorities. In the past, ethnic diversity was often seen as a threat to political stability, and minorities were subject to a range of …
Rebuilding Meaning After 9/11
The New Global Politics
Since the events of September 11, 2001, many in India have argued that if the United States can justify its wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the name of combating terrorism, destroying weapons of mass destruction, and changing regimes, then …
If not for the Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, Barbershop might have been merely one of the most popular black films in American history. Written, directed, and produced by blacks, this tale of a day in the life of …
The Rule of Lawyers: How the New Litigation Elite Threatens America’s Rule of Law by Walter K. Olson St. Martin’s Press, 2002, 352 pp., $25.95 Democracy by Decree: What Happens When Courts Run Government by Ross Sandler and David Schoenbrod …
U.S. Military Might and Myths
The American government expected Iraqi Shiites to rise against Saddam Hussein during the U.S.-led war last spring: why was there no rising? Fear of the Baath regime intermixed with a sense that the United States betrayed them in the wake …
The Complete Works of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel; edited by Nathalie Babel; translated by Peter Constantine W.W. Norton, 2001, 1076 pp., $45.00 He was a squat man. He wore thick glasses. Photographs captured him badly-none make it clear why …
The International Community Looks Away
Henry Shue A morally serious person does not pretend to an absolute objection to torture that he or she cannot support. Too much is at stake to indulge in extreme but indefensible positions that collapse under the weight of reality. …
Genocide and the Expedient Political Lie
Did a “new world order” materialize out of communism’s collapse and the Gulf War, only to impose itself now on Iraq? With 9/11 a convenient, mediating excuse? The events of 1989-1991 produced vast change, but I think fluidity resulted-a new …
